On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:48:42AM NZST, Robert Fisher wrote: :I suppose all you hardened *nix users/gurus will not be impressed but I was. : :I built a newer PC for our border to use and loaded Mandrake 9.1. : :I then used scp to copy his complete home folder from the old to the new pc and "voila" - everything was set up as he had it on all of the programmes he used and his desktop.
That's great as long as you've got a similar system at both ends. Things can be a bit more tricky going from different unix flavours, though, where implementations of software might have slightly different configuration files. It's a little gotcha, admitedly, but something to keep in mind. Greg --- -
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